I’m turning into a bit of a Hans Rosling groupie, having blogged about several of his previous performances at TED conferences (Hans Rosling talk on world economic development myths and realities and More insights from Hans Rosling at TED 2007). Most recently, he presented at TED India. He’s a wonderful story teller and watching his [...]
Tagged analytics, BI, StoryWhile my own preference would be for a policy of "Don’t be stupid," that’s unrealistic for most organizations. I’ve recently been collecting examples of policies from various organizations. If you know of other examples, please let me know in the comments
Online Database of Social Media Policies Here’s a site [...]
Tagged policy, socialmediaImage via Wikipedia
I’m looking forward to meeting and hearing Clay Shirky at the upcoming FASTforward ‘09 conference, even if it is happening in Las Vegas. I’ll be attending in my role as one of the contributors to the the FASTforward blog. I’m being lazy and simply passing along the notice posted by Hylton Jolliffe there. [...]
Tagged FASTforwardI’m presenting today to the Technology Leaders Association meeting in Chicago on the topic of “Technology for Us.” I’ve uploaded my slides to Slideshare.
Technology for Us – Tech Leaders Association
View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: knowledge-work socialmedia)
I’ve also tagged a number of links at delicious; both of sites we may check out [...]
The Contribution Revolution: Letting Volunteers Build Your Business – An excellent executive introduction to the business implications of social media and user generated content by Scott Cook, CEO of Intuit. Nothing terribly new here if you’ve been paying attention to the social media environment at all. On the other hand it summarizes and packages the [...]
Earlier this year, I reviewed Your Inner CEO, by Allan Cox. In the course of that, I’ve actually had the pleasure of meeting Allan and getting to know him. I think it was Ross Mayfield of SocialText who introduced us. Allan is an existence proof that nice guys can be very successful.
One of the things [...]
Once again Lee and Sachi LeFever have produced one of their excellent video introductions to new web technology. This time their topic is twitter. By the way, if you want to follow my updates on twitter, I’m @jmcgee.
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This 2.5 minute video is a result of feedback from [...]
My old friend and former colleague, Vaughan Merlyn, started blogging a few months back, which I discovered by way of other old friend and former colleague Espen Andersen. Vaughan’s blog is IT Organization Circa 2017. It’s an excellent source of insight into the particular challenges that face CIOs trying to make an impact on their [...]
The wonders of Internet serendipity. Scott Hanselman provides an excellent review of ooVoo, the video chat software that Allan Cox will be using next week. (See my earlier post on that tonight.) My ooVoo name is “jimmcgee”
ooVoo – Multi-person Video Chat comes to Windows
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I’m not sure of the relationship between ooVoo and the others, but [...]
If you’ve got 30 minutes next week and are interested in ways you might become more effective, consider this invitation. It’s a chance to participate in an intimate video conference/chat with Allan Cox. Allan is the author of eight books on management and leadership including his most recent effort, Your Inner CEO: Unleash the Executive [...]
